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• Watch this self-driving racecar goes 173 mph with no human driver inside

  10-01-2022 23:33 via cnn.com
  
  Autonomous racecars competed head-to-head at the Indy Autonomous Challenge at CES. The competition aims to improve self-driving technology for use on and off the racetrack.
  
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• Watch how this self-driving racecar goes 173 mph with no human driver inside

  10-01-2022 23:33 via cnn.com
  
  Autonomous racecars competed head-to-head at the Indy Autonomous Challenge at CES. The competition aims to improve self-driving technology for use on and off the racetrack.
  
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• Email shows Boris Johnson aide invited No 10 staff to lockdown ‘BYOB’ party

  10-01-2022 23:15 via theguardian.com
  
  Police investigating reports that Martin Reynolds invited 100 employees and PM attended at time when social mixing was bannedCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageBoris Johnson was accused on Monday night of an “utterly outrageous” breach of lockdown rules as a leaked email showed one of his top officials invited more than 100 Downing Street staff to a “bring your own booze” party during the first lockdown. The police are now investigating.The
  
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• Space heater blamed after 17 die in one of the worst fires in modern NYC history

  10-01-2022 23:13 via cnn.com
  
  A malfunctioning electric space heater in a bedroom was the source of an apartment building fire Sunday in the Bronx that killed 19 people, New York City's fire commissioner said, in a tragedy that marks one of the city's worst fires in modern history and raises major safety questions.
  
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• Maryland doctors transplant pig’s heart into human patient in medical first

  10-01-2022 23:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Patient is doing well three days after the highly experimental surgery, doctors say, though it’s too soon to know if it is a successIn a medical first, doctors in Maryland have transplanted a genetically modified pig’s heart into a human patient in a last-ditch effort to save his life.Doctors at the University of Maryland medical center said Monday that the patient was doing well three days after the highly experimental surgery, though it is too soon to know if the operation has been
  
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• Amanpour presses Kazakh official: Do you support shoot-to-kill orders?

  10-01-2022 22:47 via cnn.com
  
  After Kazakhstan's president gave a shoot-to-kill order against demonstrators, diplomat Erzhan Kazykhanov says the government "never used lethal force against peaceful protesters."
  
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• US CDC warns against travel to Canada amid rising Covid numbers

  10-01-2022 22:45 via theguardian.com
  
  Agency elevates recommendation to ‘level four: very high’ and says Americans should avoid travel to northern neighbourThe US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has warned against travel to Canada as Covid-19 cases surge across the country and rampant infections threaten to once again overwhelm fragile healthcare systems.The CDC on Monday elevated its travel recommendation to “level four: very high” for Canada, telling Americans they should avoid travel to it
  
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• World's longest Covid-19 school shutdown ends

  10-01-2022 22:42 via cnn.com
  
  This week 18-year-old Fridah Namuganza is taking orders and wiping down tables in the Ugandan restaurant where she works -- but she wishes she was putting on a new school uniform and returning to classes like her friend Rachael Nalwanga.
  
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• Canada deemed 'very high' risk for travel

  10-01-2022 22:27 via cnn.com
  
  • Leaked email shows Boris Johnson's top official invited staff to lockdown-breaking party
  
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• 'We haven't arrived yet': Georgia team still grinding for first win over Alabama

  10-01-2022 22:23 via cnn.com
  
  CNN's Andy Scholes reports on how players on both teams prepare for the much anticipated rematch between Georgia and Alabama in the College Football Playoff National Championship game.
  
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• 'This is an evolving crisis': New York mayor Eric Adams revises Bronx fire death toll to 17 – video

  10-01-2022 22:16 via theguardian.com
  
  The mayor of New York City, Eric Adams, on Monday revised the death toll from a high-rise fire in the Bronx on Sunday, saying 17 people were killed, two fewer than originally thought.Adams said nine adults and eight children had died. He did not immediately provide a reason for the lower countBronx fire: New York mayor Eric Adams revises death toll to 17 Continue reading...
  
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• Convicted murderer and millionaire Robert Durst dies

  10-01-2022 22:05 via cnn.com
  
  Robert Durst, the eccentric millionaire who fascinated viewers as the subject of HBO's documentary series "The Jinx" before being convicted last year of murder, has died in a California prison hospital, longtime attorney Dick DeGuerin tells CNN's Paul Vercammen. He was 78.
  
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• Foreboding sign for ex-US President as judge questions whether he 'plausibly agreed' with rioters' actions

  10-01-2022 21:47 via cnn.com
  
  A federal judge in Washington, DC, is set to consider, for the first time, whether former President Donald Trump is immune from liability related to his supporters attacking the US Capitol on January 6, 2021.
  
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• Federal judge is weighing whether former US President is immune from liability over Jan. 6 insurrection

  10-01-2022 21:47 via cnn.com
  
  A federal judge in Washington, DC, is set to consider, for the first time, whether former President Donald Trump is immune from liability related to his supporters attacking the US Capitol on January 6, 2021.
  
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• Robert Durst, convicted murderer and subject of HBO's 'The Jinx,' has died

  10-01-2022 21:04 via cnn.com
  
  Robert Durst, the eccentric millionaire who fascinated viewers as the subject of HBO's documentary series "The Jinx" before being convicted last year of murder, has died in a California prison hospital, longtime attorney Dick DeGuerin tells CNN's Paul Vercammen. He was 78.
  
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• 'Fresh Prince' reboot turns up the drama in its first trailer

  10-01-2022 20:55 via cnn.com
  
  Bel-Air's iconic Fresh Prince is getting a fresh new look, 30 years later.
  
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• 20 May 2020: what was UK doing while No 10 aide organised a party?

  10-01-2022 20:53 via theguardian.com
  
  At the time, there was no mixing indoors, non-essential shops were shut, and hospitality businesses remained closedLeaked email about drinks event at No 10 explodes Johnson’s defencesTo many, May 2020 may feel like a lifetime ago, so much has happened in the last 20 months of the Covid-19 pandemic.On 20 May 2020, when the prime minister’s private secretary was inviting colleagues to bring their own booze for socially distanced drinks in the No 10 garden to “make the most of thi
  
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• No evidence of drug use or foul play in Bob Saget autopsy

  10-01-2022 20:38 via cnn.com
  
  • Saget's TV daughters 'deeply saddened' by his death
  
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• US-Russia talks over Ukraine ‘useful’ but no progress made

  10-01-2022 20:22 via theguardian.com
  
  Diplomats stress they have not made progress towards resolving fundamental disagreementsUS and Russian diplomats have emerged from a day of negotiations in Geneva over the fate of Ukraine, describing the talks as “useful” and “very professional” – but also stressing they had not made progress towards resolving fundamental disagreements.The two sides largely spent the eight hours of talks presenting their points of view on the situation in Ukraine, currently hemmed i
  
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• In today’s New Zealand, it’s not about being just Māori or Pākehā - everyone must belong | Philip McKibbin

  10-01-2022 20:00 via theguardian.com
  
  While some of us are both, many of us are neither. The urge to separate us out is used to marginalise people around the worldIt took me a long time to embrace my Māori identity.On my mother’s side, I whakapapa (relate, through ancestry) to Kāi Tahu, the largest iwi (tribe) of Te Waipounamu (the South Island of New Zealand), but I grew up believing I was only Pākehā (NZ European). I spent most of my childhood living with my Pākehā father. Even though my Mā
  
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• 'We didn't have time to think': Officers speak out after dramatic rescue of pilot

  10-01-2022 19:40 via cnn.com
  
  CNN's Kate Bolduan speaks with three officers from the Los Angeles Police Department who rescued an injured pilot from a downed plane moments before a train crashed into the aircraft.
  
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• Italy tourist spot daubed red by 'cowardly' vandals

  10-01-2022 19:34 via cnn.com
  
  An incident in which vandals apparently smeared red pigment across a famous white cliff on the island of Sicily has been condemned as "cowardly" by local officials.
  
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• Analysis: This Republican senator just admitted the 2020 election wasn't rigged

  10-01-2022 19:31 via cnn.com
  
  • Trump's potential liability for Capitol riot faces major test in court
  
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• Analysis: GOP senator just admitted 2020 election wasn't rigged

  10-01-2022 19:31 via cnn.com
  
  • Trump's potential liability for Capitol riot faces major test in court
  
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• Analysis: GOP senator admits 2020 election wasn't rigged

  10-01-2022 19:31 via cnn.com
  
  • Trump's potential liability for Capitol riot faces major test in court
  
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• Afghanistan: Taliban arrests professor who criticized senior official

  10-01-2022 19:28 via foxnews.com
  
  The Taliban have arrested a Kabul university professor who famously berated a senior official on live television, a sign of the intensifying crackdown on critics of Afghanistan’s new regime.
  
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• Djokovic vows to compete in Australian Open

  10-01-2022 19:18 via cnn.com
  
  • Hear Djokovic brother's message to Australia after tennis star wins appeal
  
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• World's longest COVID-19 school disruption, in Uganda, comes to an end

  10-01-2022 19:10 via foxnews.com
  
  Uganda's schools reopened to students on Monday, ending the world's longest school disruption due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
  
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• Here's why Djokovic's Australia woes may not be over yet

  10-01-2022 18:50 via cnn.com
  
  A judge in Melbourne ruled that tennis star Novak Djokovic should be released from detention, and the government's cancellation of his visa overruled. Australia's immigration minister still has the power to cancel the visa, however, and is "currently considering the matter." CNN's Paula Hancocks reports from Melbourne.
  
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• 'I thought it was a sick joke': Gilbert Gottfried on Bob Saget's unexpected death

  10-01-2022 18:46 via cnn.com
  
  Comedian Gilbert Gottfried comments on the passing of his longtime friend Bob Saget, who died Sunday at the age of 65.
  
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• US says no breakthrough in 'frank and forthright' talks with Russia over Ukraine border crisis

  10-01-2022 18:40 via cnn.com
  
  American and Russian officials are holding high-stakes talks Monday about the build-up of troops on Ukraine's border, as fears mount over a possible Russian invasion.
  
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• Saget's TV daughters 'deeply saddened' by his death

  10-01-2022 18:29 via cnn.com
  
  Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen are paying tribute to their TV dad.
  
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• Space heater blamed after 19 die in one of the worst fires in modern New York City history

  10-01-2022 18:13 via cnn.com
  
  A malfunctioning electric space heater in a bedroom was the source of an apartment building fire Sunday in the Bronx that killed 19 people, New York City's fire commissioner said, in a tragedy that marks one of the city's worst fires in modern history and raises major safety questions.
  
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• Giant 180 million-year-old 'sea dragon' fossil found in UK reservoir

  10-01-2022 18:13 via cnn.com
  
  The colossal 180 million-year-old fossilized remains of an ichthyosaur have been found in the UK, in what researchers have described as one of the most significant discoveries in the region.
  
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• State GOP officials continue assault on election integrity

  10-01-2022 18:07 via cnn.com
  
  After more than a year of baselessly questioning the results of the 2020 election, some Republicans are casting doubt on how ballots are counted, part of a broader movement inspired by former President Donald Trump's lies about election fraud that is undermining confidence in America's vote.
  
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• Fox cements new strategy by installing flame-thrower Jesse Watters in primetime slot

  10-01-2022 18:06 via cnn.com
  
  Jesse Watters, the right-wing talk show host who throughout his career has courted controversy with incendiary commentary, will be Fox's new 7 p.m. host, the network announced on Monday.
  
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• Tennis star vows to compete in Australian Open and tweets a photo of himself back on court

  10-01-2022 18:01 via cnn.com
  
  World tennis No. 1 Novak Djokovic will be allowed to defend his men's singles title at the Australian Open in Melbourne this month, after a judge quashed the government's decision to cancel his visa and ordered him to be freed.
  
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• Transformers star Josh Duhamel is engaged to Miss World America

  10-01-2022 17:58 via cnn.com
  
  Josh Duhamel popped the question to former Miss World America Audra Mari and she said yes.
  
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• ‘It’s our house’: mood in Kyiv calm despite threat of Russian attack

  10-01-2022 17:53 via theguardian.com
  
  Residents in Ukraine’s capital defiant, with many ready to fight – but they also have other concernsAt weekends Yevgeny Tereshchenko goes to the woods outside Kyiv and practises his shooting. “We need to be ready, morally and physically,” Tereshchenko explained, showing off a video in which he springs athletically into action and fires a rifle several times.A Ukrainian army officer until two years ago, Tereshchenko is preparing for a possible Russian attack. If Moscow doe
  
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• How we made: Big Country on Chance

  10-01-2022 17:50 via theguardian.com
  
  ‘The idea of wearing checked shirts came from Bruce Springsteen – plus you could buy them cheap at Millets!’I knew [singer/guitarist] Stuart Adamson when he was in Skids and I was in the Delinquents and all the bands in Dunfermline used to rehearse in stables next to each other. When Skids were doing their third album he said to me: “Wouldn’t it be great to do a twin guitar thing?” I thought he was just being nice. Then after Skids split he knocked on my door
  
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• Badger leads archaeologists to hoard of Roman coins in Spain

  10-01-2022 17:47 via cnn.com
  
  A badger has led archaeologists to a hoard of more than 200 Roman coins that had been hidden in a cave in Spain for centuries.
  
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• Calls for release of Kabul University professor detained by Taliban

  10-01-2022 17:45 via theguardian.com
  
  Prof Faizullah Jalal, an outspoken critic of Afghanistan’s ruling group, was arrested for alleged remarks on social mediaSupporters of a prominent university professor, and one of Afghanistan’s most vocal critics of the Taliban, are calling for his release after he was arrested on Saturday.Faizullah Jalal, a professor at Kabul University, was detained by the Taliban after the group claimed he was responsible for a series of messages on social media attacking them. Continue reading...
  
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• What would be Russia’s military options in Ukraine?

  10-01-2022 17:44 via theguardian.com
  
  Analysis: Military advantage is overwhelming but full invasion and occupation are different matterA full invasion of Ukraine, with the aim of pacifying the capital, Kyiv, would result in Vladimir Putin starting a war on a scale not seen since Iraq in 2003 – prompting western experts to question whether a lasting Russian victory could be achieved.Estimates suggest about 100,000 Russian troops are massing near Ukraine’s borders. Yet, experts following the crisis closely say that for an
  
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• COVID-19: Italy targets unvaccinated people with new restrictions

  10-01-2022 17:12 via foxnews.com
  
  Italy targeted the unvaccinated with new COVID restrictions Monday, with proof of vaccination or recovery from a recent infection required to enter places like public transport, coffee shops and gyms.
  
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• Uganda reopens schools after world's longest Covid-19 shutdown

  10-01-2022 17:10 via cnn.com
  
  This week 18-year-old Fridah Namuganza is taking orders and wiping down tables in the Ugandan restaurant where she works -- but she wishes she was putting on a new school uniform and returning to classes like her friend Rachael Nalwanga.
  
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• Michael Caine is selling his art and film memorabilia -- and even his glasses

  10-01-2022 16:59 via cnn.com
  
  Oscar-winning actor Michael Caine is giving fans the chance to own mementos of his illustrious film career.
  
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• Watch these escaped ostriches go on the run

  10-01-2022 16:57 via cnn.com
  
  80 ostriches in China made a break for freedom after a farmer failed to secure a gate
  
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• Dolphins, Vikings, Bears part ways with coaches following disappointing seasons

  10-01-2022 16:51 via cnn.com
  
  As is now tradition, the end of the NFL regular season spells the end of some coaches' or executives' time at their teams.
  
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• This Republican senator just admitted the 2020 election wasn't rigged

  10-01-2022 16:50 via cnn.com
  
  On Sunday, South Dakota Republican Sen. Mike Rounds was asked a blunt question by ABC's George Stephanopoulos: "What do you say to all those Republicans, all those veterans who believe the election was stolen, who have bought the falsehoods coming from former President Trump?"
  
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• Grand Theft Auto, meet FarmVille

  10-01-2022 16:50 via cnn.com
  
  Zynga, the mobile game developer known for hits like FarmVille, Words With Friends and a popular Texas Hold'em poker game, is pairing up with Take-Two Interactive, the developer of the Grand Theft Auto franchise of games.
  
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